desktops are CHEAP

[vlion]

I spent some time last night looking at desktops with large amounts of RAM (health issues strongly indicate NOT doing serious work with a laptop, EVER AGAIN).

I can get a refurb Xeon quad-core machine with 24GB of RAM from Dell for something like $600-$700. That seems to blow laptop equivalent compute costs out of the water. Since I like virtual machines, this seems.... awesome!

*And* I already have the monitor & other accessories. This is very intriguing!

Comments

[shadowspar]

OMG, inorite? I'm always blown away when I price out desktop machines these last several years. I needed to pick up a machine for my partner's office, and even though this was like 2 years ago, we got a new machine with a relatively strong 2-core CPU and 12GB of RAM for something like 429 CAD. It seems unreal. =)

[momijizukamori]

I'm not actually super-surprised - with laptops, the premium is mostly for having everything be minature and able to survive being moved around a ton.